How to Use landrace in a Sentence

landrace

noun
  • The region’s local landraces are also adapted to warmer and wetter climates, which are both increasing due to climate change.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • Over thousands of years, traditional agricultural practices have fine tuned the region’s native avocado varieties, also known as landraces.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • By comparison, the landraces found in Nicaragua’s lowlands were genetically tied to avocados that are found further south, including along the coast of Colombia.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • The local farmers confirmed that these lowland avocado landraces had not experienced root rot, which is the most common disease affecting commercial avocados.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 July 2026
  • This genetic data revealed that the local landraces in this part of Central America are planted from fruits originally grown in South America.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 July 2026

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